Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Have you ever wondered if you can just use a BIOS from a different board on your vintage motherboards? I tried it! I am going to use six different implementations to see if I can unlock new features and more performance! The goal is to use ROM shadowing for XTIDE to load into the upper memory area.

MR BIOS archive on Vogons: vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid=77
MR BIOS on Internet Archive: archive.org/details/target5

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▬▬▬▬ *Timestamps* ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 The board: M396F V2.6
05:50 Finding alternative BIOSes
07:48 BEK-tronic BEK-3703
12:07 Copam CEC386SX
17:36 CX Technology Inc. SXD
25:20 PCChips/Hsin Tech M396F V3.0
26:11 Pine Technology PT-319A
29:00 Microid Research Inc. MR BIOS
37:57 Benchmark results
38:09 Looking for MR BIOS files